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Matthews Plants | Harlow, Essex

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Matthews Plants

★★★★★ 4.9 / 5 · 614 Google reviews · Harlow

⭐ 4.9 star rating 🌱 Family run 🪴 Plants only — no café 💷 Exceptional value 🌿 Expert plant knowledge ⚠️ Car park fills early

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📍 Roydon Road, Harlow CM19 5LJ

🕐 Opening Hours

Monday	9 AM – 5 PM
Tuesday	9 AM – 5 PM
Wednesday	9 AM – 5 PM
Thursday	9 AM – 5 PM
Friday	9 AM – 5 PM
Saturday	9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday	10 AM – 4 PM

⚠️ The car park fills quickly at peak times — arriving early is strongly advised.
Hours may vary on bank holidays — always verify before visiting.

🌿 What’s Here

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Plants Only
No café, no gift shop — the entire site is given over to plants

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Exceptional Value
Prices are the most-praised feature after the range itself

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Expert Knowledge
Staff, including Matthew, give detailed planting and care advice

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Huge Selection
Bedding, perennials, shrubs, climbers and unusual varieties

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Unusual Varieties
Hydrangea and other varieties reviewers cannot find elsewhere

👨‍👩‍👧

Family Run
Long-established family business with a loyal following

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Toilets On Site
Customer toilet facilities available

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Car Park
On-site parking, but limited relative to demand

⭐ What Visitors Commonly Mention

Themes from recent public Google reviews sampled September 2026 — editorial summaries, not verbatim quotes. Bars show relative prominence within the sample, not counts of all 614 reviews.

Plant range & quality

most mentioned

Value & pricing

frequently mentioned

Staff plant knowledge

frequently mentioned

Family-run character

regularly mentioned

Car park capacity

regularly mentioned

Repeat custom over years

regularly mentioned

Sentiment summary: At 4.9 stars this is the highest-rated centre in our Essex dataset, and the reviews explain why. Reviewers describe it as the best nursery in the area and specifically value that it is plants-only — one notes approvingly that there is ‘no café or soaps, this is all about the plants’. Value and staff knowledge are praised in almost equal measure, and many reviewers describe decades of repeat custom.

Source: Google Maps public review data, sampled September 2026. This page is not a review platform and does not collect first-party reviews.

📍 Getting Here

🚗 By Car
Roydon Road, between Hoddesdon and Harlow — on-site car park

🚆 By Rail
Roydon and Harlow Town stations serve the area

⚠️ Parking
The car park fills quickly at peak times and visitors are sometimes turned away at the gate — arrive early

🌱 Character
A working plant nursery rather than a retail destination — no café or gift shop

Coordinates: 51.748073, 0.0516064 · Open in Google Maps ↗

🗺 Nearby Garden Centres

Other garden centres from our Essex listings. Distances are straight-line estimates; drive times will be longer.

Garden Centre	Area	Distance	Rating	Reviews	Notable For
Harlow Garden Centre	Harlow	~7 km E	4.3 ★	1,738	Very large Blue Diamond site
Art Nursery Garden Centre	Epping	~10 km SW	4.4 ★	192	Family-run independent, expert advice

All centres listed on allgardencentres.co.uk. Ratings from Google Maps public data, September 2026.

📊 How It Compares Locally

Benchmarked against 65 Essex garden centres tracked on this site (September 2026 data).

Matthews Plants (this listing)

4.9 ★

Essex average (65 centres)

4.45 ★

Highest in dataset

5 ★

Matthews Plants rates above the Essex average (4.9 vs 4.45 ★ county mean). At 4.9 stars it is the highest-rated garden centre in our entire Essex dataset, well clear of the county mean.

65 Essex garden centres tracked on allgardencentres.co.uk. All Google public rating data, September 2026.

☑️ Before You Go

Arrive early. The car park fills quickly and reviewers report being turned away at the gate at peak times. Weekday mornings are the safest bet.
This is a plants-only nursery — there is no café or gift shop. Come for the plants and the prices.
Highest-rated centre in our Essex listings at 4.9 stars, built almost entirely on range, value and advice.
Staff knowledge is exceptional — reviewers single out advice on planting and aftercare, and mention Matthew personally.
Unusual varieties, particularly hydrangeas, that reviewers say they cannot source elsewhere.
Toilet facilities are available on site.

🔍 Data & Source Confidence

✅ Business name confirmed

✅ Full address present

⚠️ Phone number not listed

✅ Official website linked

✅ Google rating (public data)

✅ Opening hours sourced

✅ GPS coordinates verified

⚠️ Owner not yet claimed

Rating data: Sourced from Google Maps public listing, September 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Review themes are editorial summaries drawn from a sample of recent public reviews — not verbatim quotes from any reviewer.
Opening hours: Sourced from Google Business Profile at time of collection. Hours can change — always verify before visiting, especially on bank holidays.
Distances: Straight-line (as-the-crow-flies) estimates using GPS coordinates. Actual driving distance will be greater.

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